Washing-machine



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G. W. LIVINGSTON.

WASHING MACHINE.

No. 358,681. Patented Mar. 1, 1887.

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'WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,681, dated March 1,1887.

Application filed August '7, 1886.

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Beit known that I, GEORGE W. LIVINGSTON, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of New Corner, in the county of Delaware and State ofIndiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in IVashing-Mad chines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of thisspecification, and in which Figure l is a longitudinal verticalsectional view of my improved washing-machine. Fig. 2 is a perspectiveview of the rubber, and Fig. 31s avertical transverse section ofthesuds-box Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts inall the figures.

Hy invention has relation to that class of reciprocating-rubberwashingmachines in which a round rubber is rocked or reciprocated in arounded suds-box, the rubber and suds-box having transverse ribs; and itconsists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such awashing-machine, in which the suds-box is provided with adownwardly-facing transverse board provided with ribs, against which aribbed upwardly facing squeezing board or surface upon the end of therubber may work, so that the clothes in the suds-box may be Worked toone end of the suds-box, and thereupon squeezed between the board. ofthe suds-box and of the rubber, as hereinafter more fully described andclaimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates the suds-box, whichis mounted upon diverging legs B, and which is provided with the bottom0, forming a part of a cylinder, having, however, one end, D, curved outto form a resting place and receptacle for the soap, having an outer endpiece, E, and an inner cross-piece, F.

The greater portion of the bottom of the sudsbox from theoutwardly-curved end to a distance from the other end is provided with anumber of transverse ribs, G, having longitudinal grooves H in theirupper faces, and the remaining end of the curved. bottom is pro- SerialNo. 210,288.

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' vided with curved longitudinal slats or ribs I,

extending from the last transverse rib to the upper edge of the sudsbox.

A board, .I, is secured across the upper edges of the suds-box at thatend of the same, and is provided upon its under side with a nu1nber ofshort longitudinal ribs, K, triangularin section.

The rubber L consists of the side pieces, M, having their lower edgessegmental, and having two handlebars, N N, secured radiating at one endof the side pieces, projecting obliquely toward the outwardly'bent endof the suds-box, and these handle-bars are united at their middles bymeans of a rockshaft, 0, having its projecting ends forming trunnions PP, which rest in bearings Q in the upper edges of the sides of thesuds-box, and the upper ends of the handlebars are united by thetransverse handle It.

The curved lower edges of the side pieces of the rubber are providedwith transverse longitndinallygrooved slats or strips S of the sameshape as the cross-strips of the bottom of the sudsbox, and the ends ofthe side pieces of the rubber where the handle-bars are secured are cutoff straight and radial to the curves of the edges of the said sidepieces, and transverse strips T are secured with their ends to the saidedges, and have notches U in their upper faces. These notched transversestrips will be forced against the longitudinal strips upon thetransverse board at the end of the suds-box when the rubber isreciprocated, and the clothes will be rubbed between the transversestrips of the bottom of the suds-box and of the rubber, whereupon theymay be worked toward the end of the suds-box,and be squeezed between thetransverse board at that end and the strips upon the end of the rubber,which will squeeze the soiled water out of the clothes, whereupon theymay again be rubbed and squeezed until they are clean.

Having thus described my invention,I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States- In a reciprocating-rubberwashing-machine, the combination of a suds-box having acurved bottomprovided with transverse strips or cleats, and having longitudinalcleats at one In testimony thatIolaim the foregoing as my end and a.transverse board at the upper edge own I have hereunto affixed mysignature in of that end formed with downwardly-facing presenoeof twoWitnesses. longitudinal strips, with a rubber having a round under sideprovided with transverse GEORGE W. LIVINGSTON. cleats, and provided atone end with a number of transverse notched strips working againstWitnesses:

the longitudinal strips upon the under side of WILLIAM A. OLnMENs,

the transverse'board, as and for the purpose CORNELIs LINN.

10 shown and set forth.

